This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.

I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business.

This morning I shot six holes in my freezer. I think I've got cabin fever.

Comandante Fidel Castro is a gifted communicator. He is a brilliant, brilliant mind. But the thing that struck me most about him was he was not a "nationalist."

We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.